Issue No. 4 February 27, 2015 (PDF:423KB)
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Issue No. 4 February 27, 2015 (PDF:423KB)
From the University Librarian h 2015 no.4. February 27 Have your say on the future of Union Court A big university-wide conversation about the future of Union Court will start in March, and you will be invited to have your say in the coming months. Click here for more information. 2015 – what do Students highlight about the library? Woroni readers will have noticed an article in the First year - first day - looking lost – ANU – photo from Facilities & Services first issue that highlights the ANU Library for – you guessed it – sex - “Hancock Library Basement: Yes, it’s a classic. And yes, 6 out of 10 ANU students surveyed have said they’ve had sex there already, but that leaves 4 students who have not yet fulfilled the“late night in the library” fantasy.” Achievements 2014. What more can we say? Well “Library bingo can be achieved by taking on all 5 libraries in a week – Menzies, Hancock, Law, Chifley and Art School”… 2014 was another year where all SIS staff made a significant contribution to education and research at the university. Statistics continue: Students are back – and yes they need us! Did Jan-Dec 2014 Number of reference enquiries Total number of visitors to library buildings ANU Press titles published Use includes E-view and E press titles JanDec 2013 45,896 77,563 1,239,348 1,255,280 you know: Library Art & Music -40.82% Chifley Hancock Law Menzies -1.27% Increase in tour participation 24.5% Na (1) 38% 38% 9.0% Increase in door count 3.8 % 18% 0.5% 14.9% 22.7 % (1) Unable to compare door count as their gates were experiencing settling in problems in O Week in 2014. 2015 had a total of 6641 visitors. 54 63 1,578,981 893,266 And the students are everywhere: New archive exhibition in Menzies. Congratulations -14.28% to Archives and SIS Communications staff for putting together a wonderful exhibition. Some great photos: +76.76% “1973 Bush Week. In the Scavenger Hunt points are awarded based on the degree of difficulty involved in finding the objects listed. A lamb may be hard enough but where would you start looking for a nun with a packet of 'Omo'?” says Maggie Shapley. 24x7 access. This week we met with Facilities and A home away from home…photo by Tracey Cunningham HR News/Staffing Helena Zobec - farewell. Helena has been an outstanding contributor to the delivery of services through the Chifley Library – with a tremendous commitment to services to students. We wish her all the best in her next role as Branch Manager at the Australian Catholic University. But we will miss her sorely! Services staff and the building people who will be doing the work that will enable level 2 to be secured to offer 24x7 access. The work is planned to take place in March and should be completed by the end of the month. We have asked that noisy work be completed before 9am but there may be a bit of noise on Thursday and Friday next week. It’s the same building group that did the work in the Chifley foyer early last year – so they are used to trying to accommodate their work to the demands of the library and its clients. Hopefully it will all go smoothly – we won’t be determining the date for 24x7 to go live until the building work is finished and we are sure that we have covered off all issues. Regular updates will be provided to Chifley staff on the details of the building work including schedules and how to raise any noise issues. Our jobs are desirable! A survey has revealed that Welcome to Zixiao Wang. She started with the Digital Repository and is located in the Chifley Library; She is responsible for data management, open access and repository work. She has come to us from Macquarie University. 54% of the 14,000 respondents would choose to be a librarian, second to a career as an author at 60% - surely them meant archivists were number 1! CAUL news. Work Health and Safety have updated their website – do have a look. Discussions at the WHS committee occurred on the proposal for ANU to be a smoke free area. Recommendations will be made to the Vice Chancellor – expect to see information about what ANU will be doing soon. University committees University Education Committee. University Education Committee was held on Friday 13 February – matters discussed included: Report from the Chair o successful relationship with NYSF, Science Olympiads, National Maths Summer Ray Choate, University Librarian at the University of Adelaide, has announced that he will be retiring in June. He has completed 25 years of service at the Barr Smith Library. Helen Taylor has been appointed to the position of University Librarian at the University of Canberra. Kim Tairi has been appointed University Librarian at Swinburne. Kim has been with Swinburne Library in various senior roles since 2006. Industry changes. Ebsco has announced that they are acquiring YBP and its GOBI platform from Baker & Taylor, Inc. ALIA launches FAIR. Freedom of Access to Information and Resources is a new program aiming to increase the reach and profile of our advocacy for the library and information sector. Roxanne Missingham University Librarian School and the Aurora Aspiration Initiative o Union Court; Council in December gave the proposal received in principle agreement to proceed to the next stage Coursework Research Projects – Human Research Ethics - three options put forward for UEC consideration and contribution ANU College of Law Assessment and Grade Allocation Report (the GAGA report) – a very high quality report and the recommendations were discussed learning spaces and design – a major item for 2015. Dr Kristen Pammer gave a presentation on LG29 PhB working party report was considered The Dean of Students gave a very informative annual report “Exploring the Future of Learning and Teaching at ANU” paper discussed noting feedback provided - a DVCA working group will be established Double master degrees – useful paper with considerable discussion Academic Calendar 2018 paper led to discussion of lengths of semesters and breaks – previous paper to be brought back to next UEC Undergraduate Coursework Programs. University Research Committee. University Research Committee was held on 18 February – matters discussed included: Research strategy – strategic plan 2015 and Research Priorities & Strategic Topics for 2015 European Research strategy Defence Trade Controls Centres and Institutes policy – a very important topic which will see further discussion and analysis 2015 strategic research funds Early Career Researcher Travel Grant Scheme Report from the DVC R – including progress on the Research Management System, ethics, and ANU responses to sector consultations Events Reinventing university publishing international symposium WHEN: 17-19 March 2015 WHERE: ANU, Allan Barton Forum DETAILS & REGISTRATION: here COST: $290 Digital Humanities 2015 WHEN: 29 June–3 July 2015 WHERE: University of Western Sydney DETAILS & REGISTRATION: here Mark Latham will speak about his new book, Latham at Large, covering politics and the modern media. WHERE: Manning Clark 3, WHEN: 6.30pm. March 11th. Bookings: ANU Events, 6125 4144 or [email protected] . Anna Bligh will speak on her new book, Through the Wall, Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival. WHERE: Copland Lecture Theatre, WHEN: 6.30pm. March 30th. Bookings: ANU Events, 6125 4144 or [email protected] . Marion Halligan will read from her new novel, Goodbye Sweetheart, and will talk about her writing with Colin Steele WHERE: Theatrette, Sir Roland Wilson Bldg WHEN: Wednesday 1 April 2015, 6 – 7pm. Registration: Please register to [email protected] or 6125 2895. E Press and Open Access The ‘total cost of publication’ in a hybrid open-access environment: Institutional approaches to funding journal article-processing charges in combination with subscriptions. A very useful article from JAIST by S. Pinfield, J. Salter and P.A. Bath. » read more Readings The future of library resource discovery. National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a white paper, written by Marshall Breeding. A very useful summary of the software tools available and key issues. » read more The costs of double dipping Research Libraries UK. Terrifying – “the total spend over 20 of the institutions on subscriptions and APCs across the largest publishers in 2013 ... Let’s take the first publisher listed: Elsevier. In 2013 the 20 institutions surveyed spent in total £14,259,959 on subscriptions and £937,531 on APCs in hybrid journals. It is clear that the UK’s embracing of gold OA brought to Elsevier an increase in their revenues from these institutions of over 6%” » read more Sweden adds CC-BY to open access requirements. The Swedish Research Council was an early adopted of open access requirements – outputs of research funded since 1 January 2010 must be made available via open access. From 2015 all peer-reviewed publications must be publicly available within a year. Researchers receiving grants as of 2017 must publish with a CC-BY-licence. » read more Brill open access journals and Copyright Clearance Center. Brill has launched four new Open Access journals: Brill Open Biology, Brill Open Humanities, Brill Open Law, and Brill Open Social Sciences. Article Processing Changes will be processed through the RightsLink® for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) No doubt CAL are looking at this development with interest. » read more US plans to increase public access to publicaly funded research The Association of Research Libraries has posted a summary of the plans of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to implement the o the 2013 White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) directive. » read more Recordkeeping Around the World. The January 2015 issue of the Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter is now available. Good list of news snippets, events and information resources from around the world – my eye was caught by Is That Agency Tweet a Federal Record? » read more COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability. A very important and thoughtful review of key issues in developing a great interconnected repository system to support greater access to research. » read more Where to keep your data: key considerations. This report is a draft checklist from the UK Data Curation centre. » read more Digital Skills. From National State Libraries Australia: Lesley Sharp and Corin Haines, co-managers of the Digital Skills project, they chat about the project's progress and upcoming plans to run the Library of Congress's Digital Preservation Outreach & Education train-the-trainer course for NSLA libraries. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript. » read more Digital literacy resources. The Digital Skills project has also compiled a list of online resources that offer training in foundation skills in day-to-day use of computers and applications for library staff, regardless of their roles. » read more Economic Value of Law Libraries. The American Association of Law Libraries created a special committee to conduct this study – as they say in the executive summary “Briefly put, the overall takeaway from the study is: "It's not about the library. It's about the relationship the librarian has with those who do or could benefit from the library.”” » read more Universities Australia. The Pre budget submission to government outlines the need for a well-funded university system, noting that public investment in Australian universities remains inadequate and low compared with OECD countries . » read more Digital Collections Research Collection Software upgrade. The Digital Collections was migrated to DSpace 4.2 today – thanks to all the staff in ITS who have worked on this project – John Parry, Nalini Nair, Doug Moncur, Genevieve and Raul. Selected recent additions Encountering stressed bodies: slow creep transformations and tipping points of commuting mobilities Modelling and control of direct steam generation in solar cavity receivers powered by paraboloidal dish concentrators From expressivism to communication in transitional justice: a study of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Transforming commuting mobilities: the memory of practice Genetic affinities of oceanic populations based on RFLP and Haplotype analysis of genetic loci Papers & Presentations Information Online 2015. Yes now online. Click on the Conference Program and select the link to presentation you wish to view » read more Marshall Breeding discusses issues and products with Ebsco staff. Marshall interviews senior EBSCO staff on the EBSCO Discovery Service, User research, EBSCO a-z, collection management workflow and eBooks. » read more Online readers buy more print! From ALIA news “In the US, surveys conducted by textbook makers, bookstore owners and college students show that millennials still prefer print books. At the University of Washington, 25% of students given an e-textbook for free went on to purchase a print copy” » read more Swords, Dragons & Spells: Libraries & Privacy. Catch up on this CNI session online – hear Pater Brantley, New York Public Library, marshall Breeding, Library technology Guides; Eric Hellman, Gluejar and Gary Price, infoDOCKET.com » read more OCLC. Roy Tennant has just completed updating his “MARC Usage in WorldCat” website summarizing and reporting MARC element use in the 333,518,928 MARC records in WorldCat as of 1 January 2015. Did you know that usage of the new fields 336 (Content Type), 337 (Media Type) and 338 (Carrier Type) shot up, from 9-10 million in January 2014 to 40-50 million occurrences in January 2015. » read more on three chromosomes Australian National Data Service NEW! Metadata for impact ANDS webpage. ANDS RIF-CS metadata requirements have both required (or mandatory) and recommended (or optional) elements, so how should you decide which recommended elements to include in your data descriptions? A good way to think about this is to consider what your institution wants to achieve by publishing data via Research Data Australia and how you expect people will search for and reuse your data. Some common institutional goals, with examples of associated RIF-CS encoding, are provided on this new page. Engaging librarians in RDM: approaches & lessons learned. Special thanks to Simon Huggard and Sam Searle for being so willing to share their support stories with the wider community in our webinar last week. Powerpoints, webinar recordings and other links to ANDS resources here Sam Searle's blog with further info on the training scenarios Other Data Librarian stories on the andsdata Data Librarians youtube channel Research Data and Librarians pamphlet Who are data librarians? Next webinar: Flying solo: Data Librarians outside (traditional) Libraries. Thurs, 5 March 12.30-1.30pm AEDT Register This webinar will explore the journey of 3 Librarians who currently support data management outside of traditional library settings: Siobhann McCafferty - Research Data Coordinator for the National Agricultural Nitrous Oxide Research Program (NANORP) Michelle Teis - Senior consultant at Glentworth Jane Frazier - Data Librarian at ANDS, previously at the Dryad Data Repository in the USA. Libraries and the Internet of Things. New issue out now from OCLC. Jeff Jacobs writes on innovation. » read more Efficiency, effectiveness and value for money. This new report from Universities UK “highlights how the UK higher education (HE) sector is balancing cost savings with raising the quality of teaching and learning through technology”. Jisc notes that the collaborative approach taken through it has resulted in savings of £2million per annum. No doubt CAUL could also demonstrate value though making major savings through CEIRC’s work. » read more The Australian National University, Canberra | CRICOS Provider : 00120C | ABN : 52 234 063 906